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When with the old hard drive(already have 3.56 installed), I get into XMB and use the file to update without problem.

But with the new hard drive, turning on the ps3, the screen displays a message saying it could not recognize the system and asking to insert the update on the stick. But then says that the data are corrupted.

The problem also is not in the HD. Surely this file from Sony that needs to be corrected as soon as possible.

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Naw, Sony didn't make it illegal. I'm having the same issue, though, and I am furious. I talked to support... they've never heard of the data is corrupt error, and it isn't even in their system yet. Ugh...

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Wow, same BS happened to me, I think Sony needs to come up with a new firmware that fixes this issue pretty quick. I can't believe it this new firmware was supposed to fix a "Security Flaw" what it ended up doing was locking us out of our ps3's, BS.

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Its funny, because after Googling it appears that this happened after 3.41 as well. Sony issued an "updated" 3.41 for folks experiencing the same issue we are. Fortunately no one else had to download it. Its likely that they forgot to change something when the firmware has to be verified in safe mode.

Its one thing for this to be overlooked once, but twice? Sony's software engineers should be better than that.

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Same here, just upgraded to a new HD for the first time from the old 80gb one after succesfully updating the firmware earlier in the day. But when I went to boot the system I just kept getting the corrupted data error from the usb stick and firmware not found when I tried a blank dvd both with ver 3.56 in the appropriate folders of course.

Seriously hoping we get a fix for this soon as I'd very much like to be using my 500gb drive as soon as possible.

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This is nonsense cus my HDD has 40gb. Well, I would like to play GT5 (8GB), DC online (16 GB), RE5 5GB), Metal Gear 4 (5GB)and I don't want to erase the datas and I can't simply change my HDD to satisfy what I want?

I read in another site that the models that has 256 internal memory ( only the old PS3's) is not having problems to change the HDD.

I think Sony have to think about the people that give the money to them like me cus I don't want to do nothing about piracy in my system.

I simply want to have a larger HDD to download games like Mass Effect 2, Prototype etc.

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I realize this is the AUS/NZ forum, but I thought I'd share that US tech support has not been forwarded this information yet. I've had this issue since the patch release and I called up Sony today and they said they haven't heard anything yet.

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in all honesty, who cares if its a small mistake or a big mistake, human or non human.... Its still a mistake and sony needs to get the fix out ASAP, as from my day of searching the internet trying to find a fix i have seen some pretty angry posts from users like us...

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I sent an email to the guys at Kotaku AU to try and raise awareness and maybe ask Sony for something official. Will post here if anything is said.

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Just rang Sony Support AU (general inquiries) they are aware of the issue and are working on a fix but don't have an ETA on when the fix will actually be out. He basically said to put the old one in and use that until they fix it.